Combi Chart! April 7th 2006!

[Admin]

We have a *New* #1 and people are NOT going to be happy, well some of you
Embrace dethrone the Sugababes by a mere ONE point! 18 of the 32 charts featured Embrace, not sure if it has ever been that close?

Gnarls Barkley and Franz Ferdinand climb into the top 5! Kooks, Mary J Blige and Morrissey make the bigger moves lower down!

There are New entries for Belle & Sebastian, HardFi, Panic at the disco, Andy Abraham, Gorillaz and Shakira.

There are also reentries for The Rakes, The Raconteurs and Graham Coxon!

TW LW Pk. Artist Song Title Chart-run Pts.
1 2 1 Embrace Nature's law (13-2-1) 405
2 1 1 Sugababes Red dress (18-10-4-3-1-1-1-2) 404
3 3 1 Madonna Sorry (13-18-8-4-1-1-1-1-3-2-3-3) 313
4 14 4 Gnarls Barkley Crazy (35-14-4) 311
5 16 5 Franz Ferdinand The fallen (30-17-16-5) 291
6 8 4 Orson No tomorrow (27-12-4-6-8-6) 270
7 10 7 Yeah Yeah Yeahs Gold lion (25-9-10-7) 258
8 6 5 The Feeling Sewn (5-5-5-6-8) 244
9 7 4 Kelly Clarkson Walk away (36-29-36-23-30-21-15-4-7-9) 229
10 18 10 Editors All sparks (19-18-10) 227

11 15 11 Coldplay The hardest part (15-11) 216
12 12 12 James Blunt Wisemen (32-14-12-12) 211
13 5 5 Pink Stupid girls (39-26-32-8-9-8-8-5-13) 206
14 4 2 Corinne Bailey Rae Put your records on (21-7-2-2-2-3-4-14) 204
15 9 9 Girls Aloud Whole lotta history (19-34-28-10-9-15) 187
16 34 16 Kooks Naïve (34-16) 185
17 13 7 KT Tunstall Another place to fall (31-32-7-13-17) 174
18 36 18 Mary J Blige One (36-18) 165
19 40 19 Morrissey You have killed me (40-19) 163
20 28 20 The Streets When you wasn’t famous (28-20) 162

21 25 7 Delays Valentine (15-7-27-25-21) 154
22 22 18 Massive Attack Live with me (18-22-22) 153
23 19 19 Rihanna SOS (25-19-23) 144
24 NE 24 Belle and Sebastian Blues are still blue (24-) 141
25 24 13 Stellastarr Sweet troubled soul (39-16-21-13-16-16-24-25) 136
25 26 25 Strokes Heart in a cage (26-26-25) 136
27 20 15 Pussycat Dolls Beep (37-24-15-19-17-19-19-27) 131
28 17 17 Ne-Yo So sick (39-17-28) 130
29 20 10 Shapeshifters Incredible (39-10-12-21-29) 118
30 23 20 All American Rejects Move along (29-21-20-23-23-30) 114

31 11 11 Black Eyed Peas Pump it (33-16-18-14-11-11-31) 113
32 NE 32 Hard Fi Better do better (32-) 107
33 NE 33 Panic at the disco I write sins (33-) 104
34 RE 29 The Rakes All too human (33-29-34) 103
35 RE 35 Raconteurs Steady as she goes (37/37-35) 102
36 RE 23 Grahan Coxon Standing on my own (23-32-32-36) 96
37 NE 37 Andy Abraham Hang up (37-) 95
38 NE 38 Gorillaz El Manana (38-) 89
39 34 31 Beverley Knight Piece of my heart (31-34-39) 88
40 NE 40 Shakira Hips don’t lie (40-) 87


*Bubblers*
Will Young
Fall Out Boy
Snow Patrol
Prince
Joey Negro
Zutons

Many thanks to the 32 charts this week!
mm gerry space bonanza seanyboy hullboy manic dandy frag redfox homes p ashley bounce greg kres jester jetep danny diesel me arcadia titty mikey Jay1 tim terrypops ryan mark Freaky earl p martinp haguey

Any queries about any songs that you charted, just ask. ;D

[Admin]

I thought I'd do anew feature on the songs that drop out and the new entries.

Dropping out this week were the following songs, you get their peak and # of weeks on the chart.

Jack Johnson #25 for 4 weeks.
Meck #3 for 9 weeks.
Kanye West #27 for 3 weeks.
Shakira #10 for 13 weeks.
Keisha White #36 for 2 weeks.
Will Young #1 for 13 weeks.
Charlotte Church #6 for 5 weeks.
Shayne Ward #33 for 1 week.

New Entries and their previous chart peaks.

Belle & Sebastian #31.
HardFi #26, #2, #8, #5.
Panic at the disco Debut
Andy Abraham Debut
Gorillaz #4, #5, #1.
Shakira #29, #10.

[ManicKangaroo]

Top work as always

[Deleted]

Great work Andy as always

[Diesel]

Embace?! never even heard the song.. :s

whata a huge drop for Corinne!!!! *bawl*

[Greg]

it seems Gnarls Barkley gonna be next #1 w/ 'Crazy'.

[Admin]

diesel said:

Embace?! never even heard the song.. :s

whata a huge drop for Corinne!!!! *bawl*

She did have FIVE weeks in the top 5 though!

And Gnarls may do it, but a lot of people have it at #1 already, so it cant go higher without more charts support from other posters.

[Hitstastic]

Great work as always Andy.

Wow!!!

That really is close - just one point between Embrace and Sugababes.

I could well be wrong, but I think Gnarls Barkley is most likely to be the new CombiChart no. 1 next week...but only time will tell.

[Laurence]

admin said:

And Gnarls may do it, but a lot of people have it at #1 already, so it cant go higher without more charts support from other posters.

I must admit it is disappointing that a song that is so loved by the populace at large is getting ignored by so many Havenites. - I can only assume that it's not been played at all outside the UK.

Nevermind, maybe next week.

Thanks for the extra info andy.

[Laurence]

Oh and thank god that Shakira's 'Don't bother' has gone.

It was doing depressingly well on the YTD even though it is absolutely diabolical song.

[Laurence]

Oh and I hate doing 3 posts in a row but isn't Sigur Ros anywhere close to the top 40?

[Maximo Mark]

WHAT A LOAD OF SHITE

[dandyhighwayman]

homesplace said:

Oh and I hate doing 3 posts in a row but isn't Sigur Ros anywhere close to the top 40?

WHORE.


Pleasing to see B&S get the highest new entry this week and my bet's on Gnarls for next week in the assumption he may figure on people's charts who don't look at pre-releases.

[Admin]

homesplace said:

Oh and I hate doing 3 posts in a row but isn't Sigur Ros anywhere close to the top 40?

#65 on 55 points, set to grow I reckon! Mel has hard it and is charting it next week

Mark, I knew you'd be impressed You have 3 of the top 5 though, plus an old charting one, so a strange reaction, you obviously REALLY dont like Embrace at all #biglaugh# Oh and you do have wigwam and jack johnson in your chart ;D ;D

[RedFox]

Excellent chart this week!! Boy am I glad I voted too; don't get me wrong, Sugababes are ace, but the Embrace song is wonderful - a very worthy #1 here, and best of all, no sign of Ne-You trying to spoil it!

I hope Sigur Ros manage to get in as well, they've climbed into my top 10 this week and might go even higher. BTW, did 'Hoppipolla' make this chart when it was released last year??

[dandyhighwayman]

Yes it did, can't remember where exactly but there were a few of us who rated it highly - at least Homes and I charted it at #1.

[Maximo Mark]

admin said:

homesplace said:

Oh and I hate doing 3 posts in a row but isn't Sigur Ros anywhere close to the top 40?

#65 on 55 points, set to grow I reckon! Mel has hard it and is charting it next week

Mark, I knew you'd be impressed You have 3 of the top 5 though, plus an old charting one, so a strange reaction, you obviously REALLY dont like Embrace at all #biglaugh# Oh and you do have wigwam and jack johnson in your chart ;D ;D

No i REALLY don't, it's by far the worst song released this year. The fact it beat Red Dress by ONE point too

Aside from that it's the best it's looked overall in a while...

[krescendo]

Top work Andy, nice to see Shakira entering at No 40

[Laurence]

dandyhighwayman said:

Yes it did, can't remember where exactly but there were a few of us who rated it highly - at least Homes and I charted it at #1.

Indeedy - it was at least no.1 for 4 weeks on both of our charts - no less than Christmas no.1 if I can recall.

However, don't know what to do about the reissue - shall I chart it highly or not. I tempted not to.

Mind you there''s so much weak indie out at the moment - waves to Zutons, Dirty Pretty things, Hard Fi, Lorraine, Charlatans and Feeder. It's difficult to know where the new hits are coming from in my chart.

[dandyhighwayman]

I've scheduled it for a re-entry next weekend in mine but I have the same quandry about whether to allow it to chart highly or not and also the lack of decent new stuff - there's only 3 new entries in my chart today.